Dans la famille des palmarès des universités mondiales, le dernier-né est français : il s’agit du « Wikipedia Ranking of World Universities », fruit du travail de José Lages, directeur du département de physique à l’institut Utinam (CNRS-Université de Franche-Comté) et de Dima Shepelyansky, membre du laboratoire de physique théorique de l’université de Toulouse 3. Voir l'article...
According to Times Higher Education (THE), the GUNi member, University of Port Harcourt ranked as the first Nigeria’s best university and the sixth University in Africa. This ranking was developed in order to “highlight some of the continent’s top performers in terms of how often research papers are referred to and cited by other academics across the globe”. See more...
Par Fabrice Pouliquen. Premier devant Melbourne, Tokyo, Sidney et Londres ! Pour la quatrième année consécutive, Paris arrive en tête des meilleures villes étudiantes au monde, selon le classement 2016 du QS World best student cities. L’étude, publiée chaque année, a pris en compte 75 villes du monde entier contre 50 les éditions précédentes. Cinq principales catégories sont prises en compte : la réputation des universités, le coût de la vie, l’attractivité de la ville, le nombre d’étudiants et la diversité de la population étudiante, ou encore les opportunités d’emplois sur place. Voir l'article...
A new ranking of universities according to their global influence has been developed by José Lages and Antoine Patt of Université de Franche-Comté and Dima L. Shepelyansky of Université de Toulouse. It attempts to measure the influence of universities based on a method derived from Google’s ranking of search results. Universities referred to in Wikipedia articles are analysed as nodes in a network and are deemed influential if other articles link to them. More...
The journal Nature has published the latest edition of the Nature Publishing Index: Asia-Pacific. This is based on papers classified as articles, letters, brief communications and reviews in Nature or Nature monthly research journals during the year ending on the 14th of December. More...
U-Multirank’s team divided 1200 universities into four groups based on their founding year: before 1870; 1870 - 1945; 1945 - 1980; and after 1980. The results showed that the likelihood of a group’s universities scoring top grades on research performance indicators increased with their age. This trend was displayed across all four measures of research performance used by U-Multirank: citation rate, total number of publications, number of publications relative to the number of students and the proportion of top cited publications. For instance, 38% of universities in the group of institutions founded before 1870 received the top score on citation rate (defined as the average number of times that the university's publications are cited), compared to just 10% of the universities founded after 1980 scoring equally well on this measure. More...
ACA´s European Policy Seminar on global university rankings ended with a big question – are universities showing a schizophrenic behaviour towards university rankings? Based on the love-hate speak that permeated vivid discussions during the seminar, the higher education game created by rankings seems unavoidable and yet, the question remains – what about the forgotten universe of the rest, of those who cannot compete with the few best which top league tables. More...
The much-awaited release of the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings 2015-2016 on 30 September 2015 has brought one of the last major contributions to the debate on the purpose of university rankings for this year. THE World University Rankings, one of the most referenced global university rankings, has grown this year to feature 800 universities from 70 countries, up from 400 listed institutions representing 41 countries in 2014. More than 1,100 universities from 88 countries were surveyed for this edition with the intention to provide a more complete picture of worldwide excellence in research and teaching. The new league table therefore includes universities from Egypt, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Kenya, Ghana and others for the first time in the history of the ranking. More...
By Stefanie Botelho. New Mexico spends more to support higher education than most other states but ranks 47th nationally in college graduation rates, with only 41 percent of students earning a bachelor’s or associate degree within six years, a new state report says. More...
By and . Rankings of countries based on how well their students perform in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) always receive a great deal of attention from the media and politicians. But PISA rankings, produced by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, are limited when it comes to evaluating the quality of education systems and their efforts to improve children’s lives. More.../https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)
